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From Publishers Weekly
In July 1991, the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association returned the remains of Zintkala Nuni (Lost Bird) from an unmarked grave in California to her South Dakota homeland. Former social worker Flood, who was instrumental in the relocation, has written a well-documented, powerful and chilling story of Lost Bird's brief life. One of the few survivors of the massacre, the infant was taken by Gen. Leonard Colby to be raised as a white child. Colby, a Nebraska lawyer, hoped to represent Indian claims; his wife, Clara, was an active suffragette who spent half of every year in Washington. Lost Bird was a lonely child confused by her identity?a nonwhite physically, a non-Indian socially. She was sexually abused by Colby, had two disastrous marriages, contracting syphilis in one, and was ultimately rejected by her tribe. Lost Bird spent some time with Wild West shows, drifted into prostitution and died an outcast at the age of 30. Flood's narrative grippingly illustrates the clash between Indian and white cultures. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Booklist
A heartrending biography of one of the few Native American survivors of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Discovered amid a field of corpses, sheltered by the lifeless body of her slain mother, Lost Bird, an infant Lakota, emerged from the shameful slaughter miraculously unscathed. Adopted by General Leonard Wright Colby, a corrupt and unscrupulous army officer and attorney, and his wife, prominent suffrage leader, Clara B. Colby, Lost Bird was financially exploited and sexually abused by the general and patronized by the well-meaning but misguided Mrs. Colby. Rejected by and alienated from two cultures and traumatized by the nightmarish quality of her rootless childhood, Lost Bird went on to face one devastating misfortune after another during her brief and bitter adulthood. Utilizing a host of Lakota sources, Flood, a noted Native American historian, provides a haunting account of an authentic American tragedy. Margaret Flanagan
In July 1991, the Pine Ridge Wounded Knee Survivors Association returned the remains of Zintkala Nuni (Lost Bird) from an unmarked grave in California to her South Dakota homeland. Former social worker Flood, who was instrumental in the relocation, has written a well-documented, powerful and chilling story of Lost Bird's brief life. One of the few survivors of the massacre, the infant was taken by Gen. Leonard Colby to be raised as a white child. Colby, a Nebraska lawyer, hoped to represent Indian claims; his wife, Clara, was an active suffragette who spent half of every year in Washington. Lost Bird was a lonely child confused by her identity?a nonwhite physically, a non-Indian socially. She was sexually abused by Colby, had two disastrous marriages, contracting syphilis in one, and was ultimately rejected by her tribe. Lost Bird spent some time with Wild West shows, drifted into prostitution and died an outcast at the age of 30. Flood's narrative grippingly illustrates the clash between Indian and white cultures. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
A heartrending biography of one of the few Native American survivors of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Discovered amid a field of corpses, sheltered by the lifeless body of her slain mother, Lost Bird, an infant Lakota, emerged from the shameful slaughter miraculously unscathed. Adopted by General Leonard Wright Colby, a corrupt and unscrupulous army officer and attorney, and his wife, prominent suffrage leader, Clara B. Colby, Lost Bird was financially exploited and sexually abused by the general and patronized by the well-meaning but misguided Mrs. Colby. Rejected by and alienated from two cultures and traumatized by the nightmarish quality of her rootless childhood, Lost Bird went on to face one devastating misfortune after another during her brief and bitter adulthood. Utilizing a host of Lakota sources, Flood, a noted Native American historian, provides a haunting account of an authentic American tragedy. Margaret Flanagan
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